‘Sharknado 2′ Cast Unveiled; Production Starts Next Week

Vivica A. Fox, Mark McGrath, Kelly Osbourne, Andy Dick, Judah Friedlander, and Judd Hirsch have been cast in Sharknado 2: The SecondOne – set to begin production next week. Throw your mind back to last month, when Syfy announced Ian Zierling and Tara Reid would pack up their chainsaws and head to Manhattan for Sharknado 2: The Second One, which is set to trend on Twitter some as-yet-unspecified day in July. Anthony Ferrante is again directing the screenplay by Thunder Levin – this time about a freak weather system that turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a “sharknado” on the city’s population and its most iconic sites, with sharknado experts Fin (Ziering) and April (Reid) the only ones able to save the city.

The original orgy of bad special effects and even worse acting had triggered a social media feeding frenzy among journalists and celebrities when it premiered on Syfy last summer. Among them, Mia Farrow tweeted a photo of herself with Philip Roth, with whom she said she was watching Sharknado. Maybe Roth did not appreciate the gag — anyway, the photo that had been taken of them at a dinner party days earlier vanished at some point. Greg Berlanti contributed the somewhat so-so gag, “Somewhere in Hollywood there is a senior executive yelling at a junior executive for not coming up with #Sharknado first.” Damon Lindelof observed, “This movie is such a ripoff of The Bicycle Thief.” Wil Wheaton warned: “You fools! You foolish fools! We should have taken global warming seriously and now there’s Sharknado!” Other celebrities used the occasion to reflect on themselves: “Oh Goddamn it, now I want to see it too and then I’m gonna want to quit this business…again!” tweeted Michael Chiklis, for example. Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, and Patton Oswalt also threw in their 2 cents worth, and even the American Red Cross weighed in.

In case you were one of those who did not watch, Sharknado, in round numbers, went like this: The ecological nightmare caused by global warming triggers a freak weather system in Los Angeles that results in a mega tornado choc-a-block with angry sharks who sail through the air attacking innocent children and blondes, and causing to be uttered such lines as “they took my grandfather, so I really hate sharks.” The movie culminated in a mano-a-sharko scene, in which our hero Ziering was swallowed by a flying shark but, happily, he had his chainsaw with him at the time; he sawed his way out, also rescuing the distressed damsel who’d earlier been consumed whole by same shark.

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This movie will be the best movie ever. The first one was by far the best movie...

Now, about that Sharknado 2 casting: One of those signed will play a New York City police officer. Another will play a friend of Fin’s who goes by the name Skye. One will play a flight attendant. Another will portray a taxi driver. Still another will play Fin’s brother-in- law. And someone will play someone named Brian.

Can you guess who will play what? We’ll give you a minute to test your casting skills. Answers after the jump:

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Actually, Hirsch makes perfect sense…everyone mentioned is an absolute has-been. Loved him in TAXI, and NUMBERS wasn’t horrible, but…what else does he have going on?

Nothing.

Rick • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Not old enough to remember him, eh? It would be a bit of a hoot if they could drag in a few more from Taxi and Barney Miller for cameos.

Book Guy • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Sharknado 2: demonstrating the value of pot, at least for writers.

Eye-Fi • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Too bad Ferrante isn’t that good, but this is just sub Snakes on a Plane junk and it’s worn thin before it returns. Not that many people even watched.

bounder • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

I actually think Ferrante’s great for this. He knows what it is, knows what the fans want, and will deliver in spades.

Buddy Bing • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Must sea TV.

Jed • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

And I thought Hollywood ran out of ideas for making movies…seems like cable TV is right there in the mix. What garbage! They should just throw all the shithead reality “stars” into this film and let the sharks gobble them all up and be done with them and throw in a few TV execs for good measure.

Paul Barzman • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Damn! – you just came up with the casting for Sharknato III!

Dylan • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Goes into production next week.

Wraps the week after!

tryst • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Yes it’s garbage but it’s wonderful.

Muffy • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Ms. Fox’s career keeps going down and down and down. It’s been that way for some years now.

I should be cast in “Sharknado 2″ since I was chased around by a giant shark in Kasabian’s “Cutt Off” music video. I have experience! Plus, I haven’t talked to Ian Ziering since he was last in Connecticut a couple years ago so we’re due to finally do a project together!

Trent • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

Go suck yourself. Sharknado was literally cinematic perfection and I can’t believe you would talk trash about it. You deserve to be sacrificed. The second one is going to be legit too by the way.

I love sharknado • on Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

This movie will be the best movie ever. The first one was by far the best movie I’ve ever seen and this second film has a lot to live up to being the sequel of the best movie ever made but I believe it will meet expectations. I personally live in New York and I am hoping I can be an extra on this voluminous film. I personally can’t wait. You could consider me a sharknado fanatic I guess, but I ain’t mad at it tho. These actors are extremely quality and will have amazing careers once the world realizes how good of a job they did on such a low budget.
I hope a sharknado comes and eats everyone who bad mouthed about this movie just saying?